Cloud-computing comparison

The following is a comparison of cloud-computing software and providers.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)

Providers

General

Provider	Launched	Block storage	Assignable IPs	SMTP support	IOPS Guaranteed minimum	Security	Locations	Notes
Google Cloud Platform	2013	Yes	No	No[1]	Yes	Yes[2]	br, ca, cl, us, be, ch, de, es, fi, it, po, nl, uk, il, au, cn, in, jp, sg, id, tw[3]	SMTP blocked.[4]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	2014	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[5]	us, ca, br, de, uk, nl, ch, in, aus, jp, kr, saud
Amazon Web Services	2006	Yes	Yes	Partial[6]	Yes	Yes[7]	us, ca, br, ie, de, uk, cn, sg, au, jp, kr, in, za, fr, se, bh, hk, it, id	List of bugs[8]
IBM Cloud	2005	Yes	Yes	No[9]	Yes	Yes[10]	us, gb, fr, de, nl, in, au, hk, kr, it, jp, no, sg
Microsoft Azure	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes[11]	Yes	Yes[12]	ca, us, br, ie, nl, de, uk, cn, au, jp, in, kr, sg, hk, za, id	List of bugs[13]
GoDaddy	2016	No			No	Yes[14]
Rackspace	1998	Partial	No	Yes	No	Yes[15]	us, au, hk	root volume is a fixed size
OVH	1999[16]	Yes	Yes[17]	Yes[18]	Yes	Yes[19]	au, ca, de, fr, gb, pl, us, sg[20]
Atlantic.Net	2010	No		Yes	No	Yes[21]	us, uk, ca
Scaleway	2016	Yes	Yes[22]	Yes[23]	Yes	Yes[24]	fr, nl
Alibaba Cloud	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes[25]	cn, hk, sg, au, my, id, in, jp, us, de, uk, ae
Hetzner Cloud		Yes				Yes[26]	de, fi, us
Safe Swiss Cloud	2013[27]	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes[28]	ch
DigitalOcean	2016[29]	Partial	Yes	Partial		Yes[30]	sg, nl, uk, ca, de, in	SMTP for accounts older than 60 days[31] but they use spam mandrillapp servers.[32] root volume is a fixed size.

SaaS (Software as a Service)

General

SaaS (Software as a Service)	Initial release date	License(s)	Written in	As a service	Local installations
fluid Operations eCloudManager	2009-03-01	Proprietary	Java, Groovy	No	Yes
AppScale[33]	2009-03-07	Apache License	Python, Ruby, Go	Yes	Yes
Cloud Foundry	2011-04-12	Apache License	Ruby, C, Java, Go	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack[34]	2010-05-04	Apache license	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Eucalyptus[35]	2008-05-29	Proprietary, GPL v3	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Flexiant Limited[36]	2007-01-15	Proprietary software	Java, C	Yes	Yes
Nimbus	2009-01-09	Apache License	Java, Python	Yes	Yes
OpenNebula[37]	2008-03-??	Apache License	C++, C, Ruby, Java, Shell script, lex, yacc	Yes	Yes
OpenQRM[38]	2008-03-??	GPL License	C++, PHP, Shell script	Yes	Yes
OpenShift[39]	2011-05-04	Apache License	Go	Yes	Yes
OpenStack[40]	2010-10-21	Apache License	Python	Yes	Yes
OnApp	2010-07-01	Proprietary	Java, Ruby, C++	Yes	Yes
oVirt	2012-08-09	Apache License	Java, Python	?	Yes
Jelastic	2011-01-27	GPL License, Apache License, BSD License	Java, JavaScript, Perl, Shell script	Yes	Yes

Supported hosts

Software	Linux	FreeBSD	Windows	Bare Metal
AppScale	?	?	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Eucalyptus	Yes	No	No	Yes[41]
Flexiant Limited	No	Yes	No	Yes
Nimbus	Yes	?	No	No
OpenNebula	Yes	No	?	No
OpenQRM	Yes	No	No	No
OpenShift	Yes	No	No	Yes
OpenStack	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
OnApp	Yes	No	No	Yes
oVirt	Yes	No	No	Yes

Supported guests

Software	Linux	Windows	VMware	Xen	KVM	VirtualBox	Docker	Other
fluid Operations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?
AppScale	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cloud.com / CloudStack	Yes	Yes[42]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Eucalyptus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare
Flexiant Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	FreeBSD
Nimbus	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
OpenNebula	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Any guest OS supported by Xen, KVM, or VMWare
OpenQRM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
OpenShift	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
OpenStack	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
OnApp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	JumpBox, FreeBSD
oVirt	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	?
Jelastic	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

PaaS (Platform as a service)

Providers

Provider	Launched	SaaS
Appian	1999
Cloud Foundry	2011
CloudBees	2010	Java, JRails and Grails, Jenkins
Computer Sciences Corporation
Engine Yard	2006
Heroku	2008	Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.
Oracle Cloud Platform	2014
PythonAnywhere	2012	Python
Salesforce App Cloud

Providers on IaaS

PaaS providers which can run on IaaS providers ("itself" means the provider is both PaaS and IaaS):

Software	Amazon EC2	Rackspace	GoGrid	Mail.Ru (MCS)	Other
AppScale	Yes	?	?	?
Cloud Foundry	Yes	Yes	?	?
Cloud.com	?	?	?	?	itself
Eucalyptus	?	?	?	?	itself
Flexiant Limited	?	?	?	?	Itself
fluid Operations	?	?	?	?
Nimbus	?	?	?	?	itself
OnApp	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenNebula	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenQRM	?	?	?	?	itself
OpenShift	Yes	?	?	?	Safe Swiss Cloud[43]
OpenStack	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Safe Swiss Cloud[44]

References

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5. Cloud Security Services
6. Restriction on port 25 at AWS
7. AWS Cloud Security
8. Amazon bugs at Ubuntu
9. SMTP at IBM
10. Security for IBM Cloud
11. SMTP at Azure
12. Introduction to Azure security at Azure
13. Azure bugs at Ubuntu
14. Website Security - Protect Your Site with GoDaddy
15. Cloud Security & Cybersecurity Solution
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25. Cloud Security
26. Security
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28. IT Security
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43. Kubernetes Cloud at safeswisscloud.com
44. Open Cloud at safeswisscloud.com